September 2009

Skype Takes E-bay To Court

September 18, 2009

Joltid, the company owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed a copyright infringement suit against E-bay in California. They sold Skype to eBay in 2005. Now eBay announced to sell a considerable share of Skype for $1.9 billion to a consortium of investors led by the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. They [...]

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Dell Pays $4m (£2.4m) To Settle Accusations

September 17, 2009

DELL needs no introduction. But it needs to give us a lot of explanations. American computer manufacturer Dell will be paying $4m (£2.4m) in order to settle accusations. DELL has been accused of misleading its customers and tricking them into paying large some of money. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Dell and [...]

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Facebook-A Money Making Business?

September 16, 2009

Earlier in 2007, Facebook launched and shut an advertising program called Beacon as reported by Wall Street Journal. But today in 2009, Zuckerberg and company now seems to have settled on a number of ways to bring in the money.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Ramadan For Software Engineers

September 16, 2009

In Ramadan, People have been cataloguing their entire life on Facebook and Twitter, as they did before. We have witnessed many times that these open announcements, most of the times have lead to fights, embarrassments, and most of the time deactivation of personal accounts. But in Ramadan we wish to decrease your tension. Here are [...]

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Fast Flip-Read The Google Way

September 16, 2009

Imagine if it took ten minutes to flip the page of a magazine or newspaper. Google has used all its might to make life easy and simple for those who want to read more and browse less. Due to the continuous experimentation of Google Labs now traditional way of reading is “back on the track”. [...]

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First look @ Yahoo Meme!

September 16, 2009

Contributed by Asim Zeeshan Twitter is the popular micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read short 140 character messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are also known as followers. Twitter is not just the popular micro-blogging service [...]

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CodeWeek’s First 33 Subscribers Win CodeWeek T-shirts

September 16, 2009

In today’s competitive age of World Wide Web, CodeWeek, started its journey on 28th June 2009. Its Team pledged to bring Pakistan’s Software Industry in the forefront. CodeWeek has made this successful attempt only with the help and support of its subscribers. This week we found our first 33 subscribers and distributed CodeWeek T-shirts as promised. [...]

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Submit the Best TechTip And Win

September 15, 2009

On this Eid, CodeWeek has decided to give its subscribers Eidi. But for that you have to give us Eidi as well. Submit your Techtip and Win CodeWeek T-shirt. There are loads of subscribers out there who have already won our Prize. So now it is your turn. We know that you are a Software [...]

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Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5-Launches This October

September 14, 2009

Microsoft will be launching Windows Mobile 6.5 in this October on the 6th. Then onwards, Windows Mobile 6.5 will hit the retail stores worldwide. Because this time Microsoft has planned to surprise its users by providing them improved and advanced browsing capabilities with additional access to valuable services, including Windows Marketplace for Mobile and My [...]

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IEEE Ratifies 802.11n, Wireless LAN Standard

September 13, 2009

Contributed by Rafaeel Akbar Chaudhry 11 September 2009 -The IEEE today announced that its Standards Board has ratified the IEEE 802.11n™-2009 amendment, defining mechanisms that provide significantly improved data rates and ranges for wireless local area networks (WLANs). This new amendment to the IEEE 802.11 base standard is designed to help the data communications industry [...]

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